In a genesis occurring during the height of the Covid pandemic, Ash the Kid – a collaboration between brothers Cody and Ford Miskin - have returned with a brand new six track EP that unpacks the often-experienced cycles of love.
Weaving its way from an ode to the encompassing sensation of falling in love, Supplements for Love concludes with the track ‘Don’t Love Me’ – an up-tempo and synth heavy final song that highlights the complications of feeling trapped in a toxic relationship that had once been total bliss.
“The EP is a story,” Cody says. “The first few songs in the EP are talking about falling in love with someone, but as you get slowly further down the EP it goes onto the topic of slowly falling out of love, being in more of a toxic relationship.
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“Then the last song in the EP is about how you want to get out of it and you’ve fallen for someone else and you’re stuck in a relationship. It’s a rollercoaster through a toxic relationship.”
Following on from the recent release of Supplements for Love, Ash the Kid have been happy with the response they have received both on radio stations in Australia and on streaming platforms.
“We managed to get on a few playlists,” Cody says. “We got on an Apple Music editorial playlist, which is really good, it’s entitled New in RnB. We’ve been on a lot of people’s natural created Spotify playlists, some with over 55,000 viewers. We’ve been on some blogs and our local radio station hit me up from it.
Ash the Kid attribute this to the hard work they have put in and commitment they have made to recording in the studio over the last two years: “I was spending time writing songs and when Covid hit I was just stuck inside so all I was doing was just writing songs. I would work with my brother on a few of his beats that he had done, and I would try freestyling over them. I guess from there, we just naturally started coming up with better songs and saying ‘Hey this actually sounds pretty good.'”
Although Cody admits that he felt compelled to do little else – or even had the option of doing so throughout the pandemic – the short period of time he has spent song-writing has provided him with the insight of noticing a stark refinement of his creative practice.
“Honestly, I think obviously Covid [is] a massive, terrible thing, but I think it has drawn a lot of creativity from lots of people. During Covid I would spend all my days with my brother in the studio, writing songs, trying to finesse my music.”
Establishing this ambition at the hands of a year spent in Los Angeles with brother Ford, Cody tasted the sweet and seductive allurement of a life spent as a musician that facilitates pop culture.
“I started working with my brother on a few things and we moved to L.A for a year for his production,” he continues. “Hearing him work with a bunch of other artists was a big inspiration for me to try and get into song writing. The enjoyment and enticement of that life was only reinforced for Cody after playing a local festival in Byron Bay, where the brothers are situated now.
“Lock Stock [Byron Bay] was a festival that happened last year, where we played a lot of our songs that we had, which was a lot of fun, we had around 200 people there. It wasn’t a massive festival; it was more like a localised festival.
“Performing in front of all those people was a massive wake up to me, it was so much fun, I would love to do this all the time.”
The pursuit of making a living off music is seemingly becoming a reality for Cody, with another EP set to be released at the end of this year or early next year.
“We are hoping to have another EP released by the end of the year, or early next year,” Cody says. “There are a few songs that are almost ready, we just need to get those finished up and then you should be able to see those at the end of the year.”
You can expect an abundance of diaristic and reflective, spacey pop songs from the brothers in the future. Follow Ash the Kid on Instagram, Tik Tok and Youtube.
This article was made in partnership with Ash the Kid.
